Causal Effect
Short description
This is a text-based deduction game. Your choices will change the development of events, make up different timelines, and lead to different endings. Your primary task is to sort out the cause-and-effect relationships between events from textual descriptions.
- Developer
- shrimp & pickaxe studio
- Publisher
- shrimp & pickaxe studio
- Release
- Mon, Aug 21, 2023
- Price
- $3.99
- Reviews
- 1
- Positive
- 0%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 0 – 20K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Casual, Indie, RPG, Strategy, Early Access
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by the $3.99 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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History
Tracking started Aug 14, 2026. Charts appear once there is more than one data point — nothing has changed since.
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